Our Faculty

EDUCATION

• RESEARCH INTERESTS

  Disaster Studies, Sociology of Violence; Environmental Values; Democracy and social movements, Science Technology and Society; Sociology of knowledge; Futures

• SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  Visvanathan, S., & Parmar, C. (2023). Science and the COVID Epidemic in India. Social Research: An International Quarterly 90(1), 33-51. http://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2023.0001.

  Visvanathan, S., & Parmar, C. (2022). Beyond the Post Normal. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 56(3), 299–311. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221148629.

  Parmar, C. and Visvanathan, S. (2022). The Gadgil Report on the Western Ghats Reading Ecology, Reinventing Democracy. Sameeksha Trust. Economic and Political Weekly. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/36/commentary/reading-ecology-reinventing-democracy.html.

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• BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS

  Parmar, C. (2021). PRME Chapter India: Fragments from the journey. In Responsible Management Education (pp. 153-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186311.

  Visvanathan, S., Parmar, C. (2011). The Biotechnology Story: Debates from India. Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays Rohan D’Souza. Orient Longman.

  Visvanathan, S. Parmar, C. (2005) Life, life world and life chances: vulnerability and survival in Indian constitutional law. (In Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A. Rodríguez Garavito (Ed) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• CONFERENCES

  Driving 2030 Agenda through Impact Research: Driving 2030 Agenda: Research for Societal and Business Sustainability, Virtual Colloquium Goa Institute of Management, Nov 18 – 20, 2021.

  Fireside chat on sustainability in UN Global Compact, Leaders’ Summit, June 17, 2021 (Eastern Hemisphere, Virtual) (with Cheryl Khor; Melanie Lechte, Foram Nagori, Emma Barber).

  Introducing Global Chapter Forum; Navigating Covid Challenges in Responsible Management Education PRME Global Chapter Forum, October 2, 2020.

  Disaster and Cities: Participatory Approaches to Urban Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Kutch (Gujarat, India) Panel: Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations, Interventions, June 28-31, 2012.

  Organizing disasters: Gujarat earthquake and the making of the “Multi-Hazard State”, British South Asian Scholars, SOAS, London, April 14, 2012.

  Translating Disasters: Organizations as Epistemic Middlemen, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, February 24, 2012.

  Organizing Disasters: On State and Disaster Response, Goldsmiths College London, University of London, January 14-16, 2012.

  On Alternative Futures: Epistemologies of the South. CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal, January 3 – 6, 2012.

  Pluriverse of Disasters: Knowledge, Mediation and Citizenship Workshop on Hot Spots for Science and Development, Amsterdam. December 12-14, 2011.

  Re-framing Resilience: Workshop on Resilience Thinking and pathways to Sustainability; STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, September 24 – 25, 2008.

  Voices of Survival: Notes from the Partition Violence, Katha- Xaviers Translation Center, Xaviers College, November 25 – 26, 2005.

  Memories, Voice, Time and Silence: Fragments from Partition, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, June 17, 2005.

  Reconstructing Lives: Partition Narratives from South Asia, Kathmandu, August 2004.

  From Green revolution to Gene revolution The Biotechnology Conference, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 2004.

  Uprooting and Reconstructing Lives Partition Narratives, Sustainable Development Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 9 -12, 2003.

  Hysteria, Hyphen, Hybrid: The BT cotton maneuvers (With Shiv Visvanathan), The Biotechnology Conference, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, October 3 – 6, 2003.

  Techno- Fundamentalism, Science, and Citizenship (With Shiv Visvanathan), IDS Sussex, December 12 – 13, 2002.

  On reading Democracy: Sustainable Development Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1 -3, 2001.

  Ecology, Time and the comparative study of Environmental Values, International conference of Human Dimension of Global Change, Rio, October 4 – 7, 2001.

  On the Idea of the South Asian University, CSDS, Delhi, September 16 – 17, 2001.

  The Biotechnology Story: Debates from India (With Shiv Visvanathan), (report submitted to Biotechnology conference, IDS, Sussex, April 25 – 28, 2001.

  The question of Constitution Review in India, Cambridge, Harvard University, April 2 – 5, 2001.

  An agenda for a Comparative Study on Genocide, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 26 – 30, 2001.

  Comparative Environmental Values: India, US, China, Japan and China, Beijing University, July 2000.

  Text and Context of Pluralism and Constitutionalism in India, University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, October 4 – 7, 1999.

  Protection of Minority Rights in India, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 13 – 18, 1999.

  Environmental Values in India: Country Report Presented at Carnegie Conference on Environmental Values, Lake Biwa, Japan 1998 (with Shiv Visvanathan).

• PERIODICALS

  Parmar, C., (2024). Climate change remains low priority in Indian elections but local economies can pave way to sustainable solutions. Down To Earth.

  Parmar, C. (2022). Normal Indian Wives, Critical Muslim 41.2: Bodies, C. Hurst (Publishers) Limited, London.

  Parmar, C. (2021). Swollen Feet, Critical Muslim 37.3: Virus, C. Hurst (Publishers) Limited, London.

  Parmar, C. (2020). Fieldwork, Critical Muslim 36: Destination, C. Hurst (Publishers) Limited, London.

• WORKING PAPERS

  Hybrid, Hyphen, History, Hysteria: The Making of the Bt Cotton Controversy (With Shiv Visvanathan), IDS Sussex working paper, 2003.

  Visvanathan, Shiv, and Chandrika Parmar. n.d. Environmental Values: India Report. New York: Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs.

• COURSES

  Business research methods (Qualitative)

  Management and Society

  Ethnography

  Management and Liberal Arts

• AWARDS & HONOURS

  India CSR Social Impact Leader 2023, India CSR Network (December 10, 2023)

  Travel Grant 2011: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

  James Martin Studentship (2007- 2011), Institute for Science Innovation and Society, Said Business School, University of Oxford

  Fellowship in South Asian Alternatives, (FISAA) Colombo, 2000

  Senior Research Fellowship-NET, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh University Grants Commission (1994-96)

  Junior Fellowship – NET, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1992-94)

  Gold Medallist (MA Political Science, Panjab University)

  Merit Scholar (BA Honors Political Science, Panjab University)

• TEACHING INTEREST

  Qualitative Research methods

  Sociology of Disasters

  Management and Society

  Ethnography

  Science, Technology and Society

  Social theories of Risk Futures

• WORK EXPERIENCE

  Academic Faculty

  Associate Professor, SPJIMR. (April 2, 2017 – Present)

  Associate Professor, FLAME University. (September 2015 – January 2017)

  Senior researcher, CES, University of Coimbra. (November 2011 – July 2013)

  Visiting Professor, CEPT, Ahmedabad. (January 2013 – May 2013)

  Academic Area Head, Media Management, MICA. (2005 – 2008)

  Associate Professor, MICA. (October 2004 – 2008)

  Associate Director, Programmes (CSDS) (1998 – 2004)

  Research Associate, National Election Study, CSDS. (1996 – 1998)

  Research Fellow, University Grants Commission, Panjab University. (1992 – 1996)

• MDPS/FDPS

  Management/Executive Development, SPJIMR, 16 participants. (September 23, 2017 – September 24, 2017).

• BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

  Chair, PRME, India chapter 2019 onwards.

  PRME, Member, Chapter Governance Committee (June 2020 – January 2021)

  IFTSCAN, Member Maharashtra chapter of The International Training Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (ITC-FSAN), 2018 onwards.

  Member, International Advisory Board of Centre for Governance and Constitutionalism, Lagos, Nigeria, Lagos. (1998 – 2001)

• EDITORIAL POSITIONS

  Editor, Journal Editor, Journal of Creative Communications. (2005 – 2008)

• REVIEWER EXPERIENCE

  Economic and Political Weekly

  Management and Labour Studies

• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  Moderator and panellist: Collaborating to build Responsible Management Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities. International panel discussion, Woxsen University, 26^th March 2022

  Moderator and panellist: Building resilience in communities,24^th December 2021 in POMS India, International conference, 22-24 December 2021

  Conference Chair: PRME India chapter meets in December 2021

  UN PRME Global Forum: Member planning committee January- June 2021

  Panelist: Success stories of medicinal plant cultivators: On social entrepreneurship, Webinar, September 25, 2020 (Part of Ayur yoga Expo 2020, Ministry of Ayush)

  Integrating SDG Blueprint (Eastern Hemisphere Session) UN Global Compact, Leaders’ Summit, June 17, 2021 (Virtual) Panel moderated by: Harsh Suri and Fara Azmat

  Conference Chair: PRME India chapter meets in December 2020

  Faculty Coordinator, SPJIMR & Tata Social Internship. (April 16, 2019)

  Co-ordinator, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 14, 2018)

  Track Organizer, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 14, 2018)

  Workshop Organiser, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 14, 2018)

  Conference Chair: The 8^th PRME Asia Forum, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 13, 2018 – December 14, 2018).

  Track Organiser, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 13, 2018)

  Workshop Organiser, SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (December 13, 2018)

  Co-ordinator, Tata Social Internship, and SPJIMR, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (August 24, 2018)

• PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  Member, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). (2010 – Present)

  Committee Member, International Advisory Committee, Global Conference on Genocide Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhaka. (2000 – 2002)

  1998—2001 Member, International Advisory Board of Centre for Governance and Constitutionalism, Lagos, Nigeria

• CONTRACTS, GRANTS AND SPONSORED RESEARCH

  Epistemologies of the South, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 2011- 2014, (Principal Investigator-Boaventura Santos)

  Biotechnology: A comparative study of India, Zimbabwe, and China In collaboration with IDS Sussex, 2000-2003, (with Shiv Visvanathan)

  Reconstructing Lives: Memories of Partition in South Asia, Sponsored by Ford Foundation, New Delhi, 1999-2004, (Associate Director, with Ashis Nandy)

  (Co-Director with Ashis Nandy) Protection of Minority Rights in South Asia, in collaboration with International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1999- 2001

  (With Shiv Visvanathan) “Democracy, Ethnicity and Knowledge” sponsored by Ford Foundation, New York.1998-2002

  Project Coordinator, The Invisible Holocaust: A study of Partition Violence in South Asia 1946-48. Sponsored by HIVOS, 1997-2000

  Project Coordinator (India)“A Study of Environmental Values in Japan, India, US and China” sponsored by Carnegie Commission on Ethics & International Affairs, New York, 1997-

  (With Shiv Visvanathan) “Studies in the Criminal Justice System” sponsored by Bureau of Police Research and Development, Delhi, 1997-1999

  Research Associate “National Election Study 1996”. Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research Delhi, 1996